The Mithraic material documented in the province of Asia reflects the integration of the cult within some of the most urbanised and interconnected environments of the eastern Mediterranean. The evidence illustrates the circulation of Mithraic practices through commercial, administrative and cultural networks linking Anatolia to the wider Roman world.
Mithraic monuments of Asia
Mithraeum of Kapıkaya
Mithras became the main deity worshipped in the sanctuary of Meter in Kapikaya, Turkey, in Roman times, at least until the fourth century.
Coin of the Kushan Emperor Kanishka I
This gold coin depicts Kanishka I on one side and Mithras standing on the other side.
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Votive plaque from Ballıhisar
This votive silver plaque depicting Mithras was found at the site of Pessinus, Ballıhisar, in Turkey.
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A gold coin depicting a bearded god with a crescent facing another god with a nimbus and a radiate crown, identified as Mithras by Vermaseren.
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During excavations at Boghaz-Koi in 1907 clay tablets were found on which a treaty concluded between Chatti and Mitanni in the 14th century B.
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Near Frasha (T&: cI>&:potcrot), situated near the Zamanti-Sou, on a considerable height a grotto has been hewn out, which can be reached by way a fly of steps.
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A rough-hewn statuette (H. 0.30), found at Emir Ghasi in Lycaonia, is said to be in a Museum at Oxford, where we have not been able to trace it.
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The sepulchral inscriptions of Lycaonia on which the titles AECJ)V and occur do not mention any Mithraic grades, as Rhode thought.
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Brothers active in Asia
Places in Asia
Pessinus
Pessinus was an Ancient city and archbishopric in Asia Minor, a geographical area roughly covering modern Anatolia.
Ἀφροδισιάς
Aphrodisias was a small ancient Greek Hellenistic city in the historic Caria cultural region of western Anatolia, Turkey.
References
- C. Foss, G. Reger, S. Mitchell (2022) Antron Kybeles/Mithra: a Pleiades place resource
- Gates, Morin, Zimmermann (2009) Sacred Landscapes in Anatolia and Neighboring Regions
- Robert Bracey (2017) Mithra: the surprising inadequacy of labels
- Walters, H B (1921) Silver / Catalogue of the Silver Plate (Greek, Etruscan And Roman) in the British Museum
